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01-16-2015 10:18 PM

fasteddy_1947

Kinda looks like the one out in my garage. I got a long way to go fore mine looks that good though. I don't have enough room to do those pipes til spring when I can move it outside to play with.

01-16-2015 08:41 PM

496CHEVY3100

We don't have a Billy ,,do we.

01-16-2015 07:55 PM

harposrepair

Quote:

Originally Posted by 496CHEVY3100

First attempt at a ElCamino .??????

Looks like someone needs their head examined for ruining a perfectly good Willys.

01-16-2015 07:03 PM

whinny

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dave57210

Speedycop built this out of an old Ford Festiva (That's the "car" part underneath that provides all the mechanicals), using the upside-down Camaro as the "body". Wasn't built to be fastest , but to win all the "originality" and "off the wall" awards. It has run in a several 24 hour endurance races. Just like his 1955 Cessna twin engine plane on a Toyota Van Chassis, and a few other nut-ball creations such as the "Jurassic Park explorer.

The NZ run sounds fantastic - an endurance race that actually goes somewhere instead of lap after lap on a stock car oval or a sports car "road" course. Sorta like the "Targa" series but for junkyard refugees

Lol, yeah it's funny as a play seeing what these guys come up with, the culmination is normally a rugby union test match between the all blacks and another international team. They normally start with a flour bomb and water bomb fight, ya gotta stand at a distance. Speaking of targa , we have one here, I've thought about getting my son to do it with me in my66 mustang?
Later gator
Russ

01-16-2015 06:57 PM

Dave57210

Quote:

Originally Posted by whinny

Sounds like an event here in nz, the engineering part of Canterbury university here do a run from christchurch to Dunedin annually.
It's called the undy 500, you have to buy a vehicle for under 500 bucks and do it up as anything you want, police cars, ghostbusters etc, some real good funny cars. Worth going to see them head off every year.
Russ

Speedycop built this out of an old Ford Festiva (That's the "car" part underneath that provides all the mechanicals), using the upside-down Camaro as the "body". Wasn't built to be fastest , but to win all the "originality" and "off the wall" awards. It has run in a several 24 hour endurance races. Just like his 1955 Cessna twin engine plane on a Toyota Van Chassis, and a few other nut-ball creations such as the "Jurassic Park explorer.

The NZ run sounds fantastic - an endurance race that actually goes somewhere instead of lap after lap on a stock car oval or a sports car "road" course. Sorta like the "Targa" series but for junkyard refugees

01-16-2015 06:26 PM

22george

Yea, it is a 1959 jeebler

01-16-2015 06:15 PM

whinny

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dave57210

The LeMons (As opposed to LeMans) racing series.
Run what ya brung.
Maximum value of any one car is $500.00

Extra points are awarded for creative/unusual entries

In this case, likely started as a flood car - no longer road legal cannot be registered etc. Sell off a lot of the parts to bring costs down to (essentially zero) then build an upside down racecar, using parts 'n' pieces from other scavenged/junkyard sources. (Sorta sounds like hotrodding, doesn't it?)

Then ADD safety-spec roll cage, and voila!

As soon as I saw the team name (Speedycop) on the side, I knew where it was from and who the team was - Speedycop runs in many of the 20 or so LeMons races held in the US every year.

Sounds like an event here in nz, the engineering part of Canterbury university here do a run from christchurch to Dunedin annually.
It's called the undy 500, you have to buy a vehicle for under 500 bucks and do it up as anything you want, police cars, ghostbusters etc, some real good funny cars. Worth going to see them head off every year.
Russ

01-16-2015 05:32 PM

Dave57210

It's a Jeebler wagon

01-16-2015 04:50 PM

ogre

not sure what that is... i only know it hurts my eyes

01-16-2015 04:01 PM

Northstar T

Isn't that a Jeemad?

01-16-2015 03:54 PM

496CHEVY3100

First attempt at a ElCamino .??????

01-14-2015 12:22 PM

harposrepair

Quote:

Originally Posted by tech69

I saw a couple of those upside down cars and don't get it. It doesn't even look remotely good. Why would you want 4 tires up in the air like that? UGLY!

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" doesn't always work when it's toooooo ugly.

01-14-2015 12:07 PM

tech69

I saw a couple of those upside down cars and don't get it. It doesn't even look remotely good. Why would you want 4 tires up in the air like that? UGLY!

01-14-2015 12:01 PM

MARTINSR

Quote:

Originally Posted by deadbodyman

They can call it anything they want but its still a 4 dr and would have looked better if they keep it as a 4 dr

That's how I feel too Mike, it's just a crazy amount of work...for what?

Brian

01-14-2015 07:06 AM

deadbodyman

Quote:

Originally Posted by mjk

Why? I guess I don't understand the shortening of cars...

They can call it anything they want but its still a 4 dr and would have looked better if they keep it as a 4 dr

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